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MoogleMaestro
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They (both Microsoft and ActiBlizz) pulled games from Steam before, and they're both back on Steam well ahead of this deal. I don't see why that would change.
There's a lot of tangible reasons for Microsoft to pull the plug on Steam game sales.
- They want to focus Microsoft products as "Cloud-First" wherever possible, and selling copies on Steam hurts this initiative.
- They would probably prefer to not give Valve 30% revenue on every game sold for IPs that they own and have their own means of distribution (and even more now that they own Battle.Net) For all businesses, this is simply a case of maximizing profits.
- They aren't happy that Valve are essentially letting people run native windows applications on non-windows platforms.
- They view the Steam Deck as a potential competitor to the Xbox or other mobile game initiatives they might have.
- They would still love it if we all used Windows Store for downloads wherever possible, which is why they have lately been streamlining the process of getting products on that storefront.
Those are reasons. I don't know if they would actually follow through and there are reasons for them to not do it, but every decision is a case of weighing the negatives and the positives. It really depends on if Microsoft cares about the public perception of forcing people to use their own store or not. Currently, they do care about forcing people onto clients, but that might not always be the case forever.
To be fair, I think his point is pretty clear: No ad based content means potentially no more "influencers" or content creators, but with the up side that the internet would become healthier. He's basically acknowledging that his whole job is sustained by a business model that's not entirely healthy for the internet despite being entirely dependent on it.
Self hosting is probably a good idea for something as ubiquitous as Minecraft. The problem is that Fandom completely dominates the google search results game. It's a real problem when looking up information on games since fandom is almost always the first result and always has pretty crappy information. (I.E. look up any street fighter character for a specific game. Fandom shows up first, but lacks basic move information, strategies or pros\cons. You generallywant SRK wiki or dustloop for anime games in reality, but google is unable to determine the actual quality of a given source it seems.)
I do wish that some of the "extra content" from other versions made it into the game in some capacity, even if it was relegated to a separate mode. I know that FFV and FFVI have some bonus extra dungeons on the GBA version that would be nice to have even as an optional configuration.
I think there's always a benefit to learn "low level" tasks that may not be relevant to daily use but inform children (or young adults) how these things work from a fundamental standpoint. For example, your rubbing two sticks example, there is a benefit to knowing the basics of how this works, how to achieve it, and the science behind why it works. I think those lessons are things that kids today have already, but are missing it when it comes to the world of technology/maths/computer sciences.
Having said that, I have no kids so I have no say on this matter. If I did have a kid, I would hope that they learn the foundation of any technology they are expected to use on a day-to-day basis.
Doesn't support it yet. There's been murmuring that they want to support it, but I'm of the "I'll believe it when I see it" opinion that most of that was just empty promises. I'd like to be proven wrong though!
I think there are policies from some instances on Mastodon around crawling so it would have to be done carefully and preserve server sovereignty.
The "no moat" is the theme of this year's internet and is the real reason why reddit introduced a fee for their API (despite not telling people that directly, in fear of looking greedy) and Twitter heavily rate limiting their content (to slow down AI scraping from their "competitors")
The irony is that their obsession with keeping their current database private, they've essentially removed a large chunk of their existing userbase who are generating new content. They're going to have to hope that AI can procedurally create new content for them and that (importantly) people are interested in reading non-humans talk about anything.
I agree with this. I think if you don't agree but don't feel so strongly to let others know you disagree, just skip voting.
With that being said, something people should consider are the bad-faith actors who will track communities and harass individuals who engage in downvoting -- this is something that will indeed be a problem for more hot button issues or politically motivated posting.
Surprising absolutely nobody.
This is going to be a big issue until some major government steps in to do something about the inequities of GAN-based AI training models and the human exploitation it is currently revolving around. Humans should own rights to the inputs being fed into these generative models and companies should be paying royalties to use them!